NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3104, 15 January 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

o London,lahultry 12, ; ? ; THB-j^teamer. : Hongkong,. haß been^reokcld,,:ftnd nine of her crew were" drowned, V

;■ Loi-d Oharlea, BeieatoVd inteuda to more in the House of Commons that the English fleet be strengthened so as to be ...in a .position to defend, the coastal trade and commerce, and also the colonies against any, two Powers combined.: -:'■:■■•'■-•' •'; ■'■-.• ---V'';

■ MrJielding: Clarke, Chief Justice of Fiji, has been promoted to the position of Puisne' Judge at Hong Kong, •:•:'. .-.'••''■': The statement that the betrothal of s the Czarevitch* and th 6 Princess i Alix Victoriu of Hes'so wauld take place at Easter ia denied. ■ ■; The Adrairality have countermanded the order for H.M.S. Nympbe being placed on the Australian station,, and she will shortly leave to join the Paoiflosquadron...:;.,, ~, ' The Council ofi;the fiopl.College of Surgeons have passed amotion censuring, Sir Morell : McKenzie for having published the, book which contained charges against, his colleagues.

It is reported that' Lord DuUerin, who is on his way home from India, is. engaged concluding a treaty.of alliance between England and Italy, At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Land Mortgage Company, Sir one of iho directors, deprecated • the proposal for capital introduced into the colony, being diverted for investment in Australia. January 13th,' , Up to the date 128,000 balea of wool haye arrived for the next series., -■

Business in forward wheat is inactive; foreign arrivals moderate, An off-coast cargo sold at from 89s to 39s G.I. The English' wheat market is firm, the Continental market inactive; the Aroerioan market shows a general decline, Several 'Australian cargoes are awaiting' sale, New Zealand long-berried is 42s to 42s 6d; Auitraliuu, 42s 6d to

New Zealand hemp, £36 15s to £37.

Paris, January 12. _ It is semi officially denied' in Ibis city that General Menamhra, the Italian Ambassador, informed the French Minister of Foreign Affairs that Italy would blockade Tunisif the French 'Government insisted on the proposals regarding tho inspection of the Tunis schools. >

. Berlin, January 12. Twelve gigs, intended for use by Lieut. Wistnann's expedition for the relief of Emin Bey, have been shipped from Germany to Zanzibar.

The Post re-affirms the statement that the statement that the Czerowitch will bo betrothed to tho Princess Alix Victoria of Hesse.

New York, January 12. It is estimated that the damage done at Niagara by the reoent tornado will amount to KOOO.OOOdoIs. Paris, January 10. In replying to a deputation urging support to the Panama Canal, M. Floquet, the Premier; Btated that the Monro doctrines (which had been interpreted to signify that no Enrppean Power should bo allowed to interfere in restraining the progress of lihorty in North or South America) prevented active help being granted to the scheme, but the Government had resolved to accord unstinted moral support.

Madrid, January 13. The Spanish Republicans nrotesl against America meddling with the Panama Canal,

Svdney, January 13. TliO' drought still continues. At Gunnclmd Station, on the Namoi Eiver, stock are dying in large numbers. At Taree, in the Mitcquarie district, feed nud water are becoming scarce. Welcome rain has fallen in the Wincannia district,, permitting stock to travel for the first time in three months, . ■__:"■'■'

Intense heatis being' experienced all over New South Wales, the thermometer ranging from' 105: to 124 in the fhtdo. The crops at Gulgong have been abandoned. Bush fires have done much damage at Carcoar, where the £»raaa has been mostly destroyed, A water famine is raging in the Walgett district; the dams aro drying up, and unless rain falls within three weeks the consequences will be terrible, both to man and beast. A man found dead on the Boorooma Station had evidently succumbed to thirst.